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Dr. Newcombe claimed that only pity forced him to take care of the lovely young dancer he had saved from attempted suicide. But the doctor's neurotic wife - and, in fact, the whole town of Calderbury - looked upon him as a middle-aged man gone mad with depraved passion for the alien girl of ill repute he had dared take into his own home. — The sc... more »andal spread with fatal swiftness toward a shocking climax as society exacted the penalty for violating its hypocritical Thou Shalt Not's...« less